The roar of the crowd was a dull thrum in his ears. Marcus, his back soaking in sweat, watched the coach approach the sideline, a clipboard in hand. He met his coach's gaze and gave a single, almost imperceptible nod. The conversation unfolded rapidly, a quick briefing on a different game plan. He took a sip of water, feeling it cool his parched throat. He glanced at the field, visualizing the new formations. This could be something completely unexpected. He trotted back to his position, feeling the familiar energy coursing through him.

Emotion: calm

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.72 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion calm. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 calm stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the calm emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the calm vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
मुस्कुरा0.415
enjoying0.405
leisurely0.388
:)0.382
কিছুক্ষণ0.382
Suppressed:
S-0.527
L-0.499
worse-0.454
even-0.422
😣-0.420